WikiLeaks earlier this week began publishing what it says are the first of more than five million confidential emails from U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor.

Some of the emails released so far, according to WikiLeaks, suggest that Dow Chemical used the firm’s services to monitor online activities of groups that campaigned for victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.

According to WikiLeaks, theemails suggested that the U.S. company was keeping an eye on the online activities of Bhopal activists and the “Yes Men” – an association involved in exposing criminals and corporate houses for alleged wrongdoing. Read More »

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, didn’t take kindly to Kumari Mayawati’s words that he should be sent to a mental asylum. So Mr. Assange lashed back.

Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks called Ms. Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, unkind things like a “paranoid dictator” and “corrupt.” Read More »

Kumari Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, launched a scathing attack on Web site WikiLeaks Tuesday, a day after a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable claimed she once sent an empty private jet to Mumbai to fetch her favorite brand of sandals. Read More »

“I’m glad I flew all the way to India to get myself in trouble,” said journalist David Finkel, who has reported from countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.

It was going to happen: At the panel on “Reporting the Occupation,” at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday, the conversation eventually turned to WikiLeaks.

Panelists were asked to address the question: Don’t readers have the right to see what happens behind a story—rather than the final package processed and put together by the journalist?

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cropped up as a topic—but not in person—at the Jaipur Festival.

Many among the public are adamant the answer is yes -– at least judging by the people who have rallied in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

But the panelists in this session didn’t agree the whistleblower site necessarily delivers what it says it does: give unfiltered information on sensitive topics to the public who can then make up their minds for themselves. Read More »

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